Strange Exiles

17/10/2025

Out now! 'Crisis Masculinity' begins with a critical reading of concepts from Judith Butler's 'Gender Trouble' and an introduction to some of the themes I'll explore in this book-length series. Sign up now and join me on this journey into male identity under capitalism

💪 bit.ly/crisismasc

15/10/2025

👻 NEW EPISODE! 👻 Poet and theorist Alex Mazey, author of 'Sad Boy Aesthetics' from Broken Sleep Books and 'Ghost Lives: Cursed Edition' from Bad Betty Press joins me for a conversation about Jean Baudrillard, Mark Fisher, books, video games and Lil Peep.

🎧 bit.ly/strangex42
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10/10/2025

NEW ESSAY SERIES! 💪 A year-long journey into the manosphere, modern masculinity, and the dark underbelly of capitalist realism from the author of THE DARKEST TIMELINE.

Find out more and sign up free at strangeexiles.substack.com

Essays and podcasts about ideas, identity and ideology. Click to read Strange Exiles, by Bram E. Gieben, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

24/09/2025

Pleased to share my first piece for Discontent, a neo-nihilist essay drawing on concepts from Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Slavoj Žižek and Julie Reshe, on the thin shroud of morality encoded within ideological arguments.

"The operation of ideology and mind control could be said to be identical propositions, and a tinfoil hat is protection against neither. One is simply the definition of the political actor, the other of the ‘madman’ (another synonym for the ‘other’ — situated as being beneath our consideration). At the site where ideology is enacted or shapes the way things are viewed, it is most likely to be disavowed or framed as ‘natural’ and non-ideological. This is an act of control, but it can be resisted..."

Subverting Ideology

23/09/2025

A share from the Revol Press blog today - transcript of a speech by the late Mark Fisher on capitalist realism in education. Very proud to publish this, Fisher was an important influence on my writing, and our imprint. Just as relevant today as it was when originally recorded.

Read:
https://revolpress.substack.com/p/towards-a-free-education-conference

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18/09/2025

Joined Jason Myles on This Is Revolution to talk left wing publishing with Revol Press, the far right clown show, protest, mental health and more. Watch it back! 💥

Get Revol Press' books straight from the source here: https://www.revolpress.com/I talk with Mike Watson and Bram Gieben, and discuss what it's like to start...

16/09/2025

My latest essay on the Poll Tax riot, the anti-Iraq War marches, and why we need to rethink how we protest in order to beat the rise of the far right.

Now on the Revol Press blog:
https://revolpress.substack.com/p/lost-arts-protest-activism-and-resistance

04/09/2025

👻 NEW EPISODE! 👻 I talk to writer and artist Robert Shepherd about his essay series 'Our Ghost', plus memes, Marxism, Doctor Who, and his thoughts on our dystopian AI future.

🎧 bit.ly/strangex41
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26/08/2025

💥 NEW ESSAY FOR REVOL PRESS 💥 Just over a year since I published The Darkest Timeline, a book that took a deep dive into the idea of “the end of the world.” Did I predict things accurately?

https://revolpress.substack.com/p/bram-e-gieben-farther-down-the-darkest

14/08/2025

NEW EPISODE! Artists, writers and curators Adam Turl and partner Tish Turl discuss their work with Locust Review and the Born Again Labor Museum 🎨 bit.ly/strangex40

17/07/2025

NEW EPISODE! Simon Copland discusses his new book, 'The Male Complaint' - a deep dive into the murky politics of the Manosphere, how young men are radicalised, and what we can do about it.

🎥 http://bit.ly/strangex39
📖 Polity

09/07/2025

"When a writer writes about war, they are writing – in their own way – about peace. And when they write about exile, they are talking about home."

My latest for Glasgow Review of Books is an interview with author and filmmaker Hassan Blasim about his latest book SOLOLAND from Comma Press.

Read it at https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2025/07/06/it-is-not-easy-to-lose-hope-hassan-blasim-on-sololand-more